1 Kings 9:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;

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  • 1 Kgs 3:5 : 5 In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you.
  • 1 Kgs 11:9 : 9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had twice come to him in a vision;
  • 2 Chr 7:12 : 12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.
  • 2 Chr 1:7-9 : 7 In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you. 8 And Solomon said to God, Great was your mercy to David my father, and you have made me king in his place. 9 Now, O Lord God, let your word to David my father come true; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in number. 10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out and come in before this people: for who is able to be the judge of this great people of yours? 11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you did not make request for money, property, or honour, or for the destruction of your haters, or for long life; but you have made request for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you may be the judge of my people over whom I have made you king: 12 Wisdom and knowledge are given to you; and I will give you wealth and honour, such as no king has had before you or ever will have after you.

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  • 1 Kgs 9:1
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    1 Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

  • 1 Kgs 3:4-6
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    4 And the king went to Gibeon to make an offering there, because that was the chief high place: it was Solomon's way to make a thousand burned offerings on that altar.

    5 In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you.

    6 And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.

  • 2 Chr 1:7-8
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    7 In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you.

    8 And Solomon said to God, Great was your mercy to David my father, and you have made me king in his place.

  • 2 Chr 7:12
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    12 Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

  • 1 Kgs 11:9-10
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    9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had twice come to him in a vision;

    10 And had given him orders about this very thing, that he was not to go after other gods; but he did not keep the orders of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 9:3
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    3 And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
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    11 (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 9:10
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    10 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the two houses, the house of the Lord and the king's house,

  • 2 Chr 1:13
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    13 So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.

  • 2 Chr 9:1-3
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    1 Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.

    2 And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which he did not make clear to her.

    3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • 2 Chr 2:1
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    1 Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.

  • 1 Kgs 2:41
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    41 And news was given to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had come back again.

  • 1 Sam 3:21
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    21 And the Lord was seen again in Shiloh; for the Lord gave to Samuel in Shiloh the revelation of his word.

  • 1 Kgs 3:15-16
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    15 And Solomon, awakening, saw that it was a dream; then he came to Jerusalem, where he went before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings; and he made a feast for all his servants.

    16 Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;

  • 2 Chr 3:1-2
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    1 Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    2 The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

  • 2 Chr 1:1-3
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    1 And Solomon, the son of David, made himself strong in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and made him very great.

    2 And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.

    3 Then Solomon, and all the men of Israel with him, went to the high place at Gibeon, because the Tent of meeting of God, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the waste land, was there.

  • 1 Kgs 10:4
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    4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

  • Jonah 3:1
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    1 And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,

  • 2 Chr 8:1
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    1 Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

  • 1 Chr 29:25
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    25 And the Lord made Solomon great in the eyes of all Israel, clothing him with glory and honour such as no other king in Israel had had before him.

  • Gen 22:15
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    15 And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,

  • 2 Chr 7:1
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    1 Now when Solomon's prayers were ended, fire came down from heaven, burning up all the offerings; and the house was full of the glory of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 1:37
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    37 As the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon and make the seat of his authority greater than that of my lord King David.

  • 1 Kgs 9:17
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    17 ... and Solomon was the builder of Gezer and Beth-horon the lower,

  • 1 Kgs 8:12
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    12 Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;

  • 1 Kgs 9:25
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    25 Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 9:23
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    23 And all the kings of the earth came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put into his heart.

  • 1 Kgs 8:22
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    22 Then Solomon took his place before the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present, and stretching out his hands to heaven,

  • 2 Chr 9:12
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    12 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what she had taken to the king. So she went back to her country with her servants.

  • 1 Kgs 3:10
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    10 Now these words and Solomon's request were pleasing to the Lord.

  • 1 Chr 22:6
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    6 Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 5:12
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    12 Now the Lord had given Solomon wisdom, as he had said to him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they made an agreement together.

  • 2 Chr 6:1-2
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    1 Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men,

    2 So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

  • 2 Chr 8:12
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    12 Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,

  • 1 Kgs 5:2
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    2 And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,

  • 1 Kgs 11:6
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    6 And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.

  • 1 Kgs 6:2
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    2 The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

  • 1 Kgs 1:22
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    22 And while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.

  • 1 Chr 29:23
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    23 So Solomon was put on the seat of the Lord as king in place of his father David, and everything went well for him; and all Israel was under his authority.